FROM THE PAPERS
Synopsis: Short summaries of articles we think you will find useful from some of the weekends broadsheets. At the end of each summary is a link to take you directly to the relevant article. Please see Helpful Hints at the end of the bulletin
Date posted: Monday, July 07, 2014
ARTICLES
Financial Times:” HMRC sets ultimatum for scheme investors”. HM Revenue & Customs has ratcheted up the tone of its correspondence to taxpayers, taking a hard line on those it accuses of taking part in tax avoidance schemes.Click here to go directly to the article
Financial Times:” Make the most of a £15,000 Nisa”. Looking for investment ideas for your new expanded Isa allowance? Last week we looked at ways to invest £15,000 using only passive, index-tracking funds. This week we look at how to invest the same sum using only investment trusts.
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Financial Times:” Pension reform driven by desire for tax take, says senior actuary”. George Osborne’s pension reforms have been motivated by a desire to bring forward tax take for the Exchequer and could worsen pensioner poverty, says a former senior adviser to the government. Click here to go directly to the article
Financial Times:” Sharia-compliant pension fund widens choice but at a cost”. This week saw the launch of a new Sharia-compliant pension scheme tailored for Muslim workers being signed up to a company pension by their employer. Click here to go directly to the article
Financial Times:” HMRC sets ultimatum for scheme investors”. HM Revenue & Customs has ratcheted up the tone of its correspondence to taxpayers, taking a hard line on those it accuses of taking part in tax avoidance schemes.Click here to go directly to the article
The Times:” Get your savings into shape this summer”. We are in the midst of an Isa revolution. At the start of this month the amount you can save in your Isa rose from £11,880 to £15,000, and for the first time you could save the full allowance in cash.
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The Times:” Pensions revolution opens investor trap “. Changes to pensions could be disastrous for savers who raid their retirement fund and put cash into deposit accounts paying low interest rates. Click here to go directly to the article
The Telegraph:” The cost of being a pensioner: £10,387 a year”. Over-65s in Wales spend £3,100 less than pensioners in South East England, with food being the biggest overall cost
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The Telegraph:” British public footing a £1bn bill – to aid the US taxman”. As of this month businesses and consumers face a multi-billion pound bill to satisfy new US tax laws: another case of Britain playing poodle to Uncle Sam?
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HELPFUL HINTS
1. LINKS TO ARTICLES:
We have now provided direct links to the articles referred to in the article. These can be accessed by click on the “To go directly to the article click here” at the end of each article summary
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Currently the Financial Times and Weekend Financial Times only allows access to view 8 articles a month free, then requiring the user to subscribe to their online service. From 1 July 2010 The Times, Saturday Times and Sunday Times articles are no longer available for free online. Instead a daily or monthly fee will have to be paid to access the articles.
We are aware of the inconvenience this will cause to our users. Unfortunately, due to the stringent copyright rules enforced by the newspapers we are not allowed to copy the articles onto our bulletin to make them available to Techlink users, thus our only option is to put a direct link to the article on the newspapers own website.
Although we will continue to produce From the Papers bulletins linking to these articles, users should be aware that access too many will now be blocked unless a personal subscription to the newspapers site is taken.
Once again we apologise for this inconvenience but this is something outside of our control.
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